"He was on my song ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’, singing these background vocals and I didn’t even put his name on it,” Jay once revealed in an interview with NME.

3. JAY-Z's father left the house when we was 11 or 12-years-old and never returned.

JAY-Z was forced to become the man of the house at a very young age after his father Adnes Reeves walked out. The pair briefly renunited back in 2003. However Adnes died a few years later from liver disease, developed from a drinking problem. Picture: WENN

4. 'Reasonable Doubt' was originally called 'Heir To The Throne'.

5. Jay Z tries to take Beyonce on a pizza date every Sunday in Brooklyn.

6. Jay Z and Busta Rhymes went to school together and once battled with each other in their cafeteria.

7. Jay Z rode the subway to a gig in Brooklyn New York.

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8. Jay Z's daughter Blue Ivy featured on his song 'Glory' when she was just two days old.

9. And here he is riding the tube to London's O2 Arena with Coldplay's Chris Martin.